Yea, Oscar is an incredible player, really transcends a lot of feels nicely. And as a Latin player, he is definitetly one of my favorites on electric. I love his work with Paquito D'Rivera. My current favorite recording with Paquito is Big Band Time. He is totally supportive through the whole thing, but there are a couple of stand out bass tracks. On "Basstronaut" he trades off solos with jazz upright player John Goldsby, that's pretty incredible to hear. Then on "Y La Negra Bailable" he, the bongo player, and Paquito on clarinet all play as a trio that gives Oscar lots of room to stretch out. Its a great recording. I like his solo album alot too. Yea, and I'm not sure how he gets his tone - it almost sounds like an upright at times. He's definitely one of the guys to check out today.

Oscar is an amazing player. He is way up on my "get out and see this guy play" list.

Since this thread might attract a few Stagnaro fans, I have a favor/question. I was watching a cable station that was playing latin jazz videos and I saw this vid with paquito and Oscar and the bass break was *insane*. I think that the track was called "one-nil" or 0-1, or 1-0, or something like that. I only got a brief look at the info at the end of the vid.

If this rings a bell or if someone knows what it was that I might have seen, I'd appreciate any info on it.

I was just going over some transcriptions from his solo album the other day. As if playing Latin isn't hard enough, he does lots of 5/4 and 7/4 with notes tied over the bar lines. I'll be working on those for a while!

old skool, check out either "Big Band Time" or "Live at the Blue Note" by Paquito D' Rivera. There's some outstanding groove playing and solos by Oscar on both. His solo album, "Mariella's Dream" is also very good, and it does feature almost all full band recordings. Nice Latin Jazz originals and arrangements - some Wayne Shorter tunes, a Ravel piece, and a Stevie Wonder tune! All those albums are worth checking out!